Too many Americans have a mistaken view of First Amendment rights

I’m as staunch a defender of free speech rights as the next guy, but I recognize that there are limits to those rights.

Some folks, however, are BADLY MISREADING the First Amendment:

More than 4 in 10 Americans think the First Amendment protects them from being fired for what they say, and more than 3 in 10 think it applies to situations like A&E’s now-revoked suspension of “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson, according to a HuffPost/YouGov poll. But they’re wrong.

In the new survey, 45 percent of Americans said the First Amendment does not allow people to be fired from ...

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I’m as staunch a defender of free speech rights as the next guy, but I recognize that there are limits to those rights.

Some folks, however, are BADLY MISREADING the First Amendment:

More than 4 in 10 Americans think the First Amendment protects them from being fired for what they say, and more than 3 in 10 think it applies to situations like A&E’s now-revoked suspension of “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson, according to a HuffPost/YouGov poll. But they’re wrong.

In the new survey, 45 percent of Americans said the First Amendment does not allow people to be fired from ...